Workshop on Moving Frames in Geometry

June 13-17, 2011

Program

 

Monday, June 13, 2011

08:30 - 09:00
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Robert Bryant
(University of California at Berkeley)
Applications of Cartan's generalization of Lie's Third Theorem
Abstract
10:10 - 10:50
Irina Kogan
(North Carolina State University)
Geometry of hyperbolic conservative systems
Abstract
10:50 - 11:10
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:10 - 11:50
Chuu-Lian Terng
(University of California at Irvine)
Submanifolds, moving frames, and integrable systems
Abstract

12:00 - 13:30
Lunch break


Meeting room(s) : 6214

13:30 - 14:10
Stephen Anco
(Brock University)
Integrability of geometric evolution equations using classical moving frames
Abstract
14:20 - 15:00
Daniel Fox
(Community College of Philadelphia)
Killing fields and conservation laws
Abstract
15:10 - 16:10
Discussion

 

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Jeanne N. Clelland
(University of Colorado)
Equivalence of geometric structures in control theory via moving frames
Abstract
10:10 - 10:50
Nabil Kahouadji
(McGill University)
Conservation laws and generalized isometric embeddings
Abstract
10:50 - 11:10
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:10 - 11:50
Thomas Ivey
(College of Charleston)
Small(er) is beautiful: twistor space constructions in submanifold geometry
Abstract

12:00 - 13:30
Lunch break


Meeting room(s) : 6214

13:30 - 14:30
Keti Tenenblat
(Universidade de Brasilia)
On Ribaucour transformations for surfaces
Abstract
14:50 - 15:30
Robert Milson
(Dalhousie University)
The IC bound for 4-dimensional, Lorentzian geometry
Abstract
15:40 - 16:10
Discussion

18:00
Conference Dinner "Restaurant Dev"

 

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Andreas Cap
(Universität Wien)
Holonomy reductions of Cartan connections and invariant differential equations
Abstract
10:10 - 10:50
Konrad Schöbel
(Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
Orthogonally separable coordinates on the 3-sphere
Abstract
10:50 - 11:10
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:10 - 11:50
Igor Zelenko
(Texas A&M University)
Geometry of curves in parabolic homogeneous spaces
Abstract

12:00 - 13:30
Lunch break


Meeting room(s) : 6214

13:30 - 14:10
Thomas Mettler
(University of California at Berkeley)
Weyl metrisability for projective surfaces
Abstract
14:20 - 15:00
Colleen Robles
(Texas A&M University)
Homological rigidity of schubert varieties
Abstract
15:10 - 15:50
Dennis The
(Texas A&M University)
The Lagrangian Grassmannian, hyperbolic PDE, and G2
Abstract
15:55 - 16:20
Discussion

 

Thursday, June 16, 2011

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Peter J. Olver
(University of Minnesota)
Moving frames since 1997
Abstract
10:10 - 10:50
Gloria Mari Beffa
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
The pentagram map and its generalizations
Abstract
10:50 - 11:10
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:10 - 11:50
Juha Pohjanpelto
(Oregon State University)
Variational bicomplexes, group actions, and cohomology
Abstract

12:00 - 13:30
Lunch break


Meeting room(s) : 6214

13:30 - 14:10
Tania Goncalves
(University of Kent)
Moving frame methods for solving $\mathrm{SE}(3)$ symmetric variational problems
Abstract
14:20 - 15:00
Roman Smirnov
(Dalhousie University)
Killing tensors and moving frames
Abstract
15:10 - 16:10
Discussion

 

Friday, June 17, 2011

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Mark Fels
(Utah State University)
Symmetry reduction of exterior differential systems
Abstract
10:10 - 10:50
Peter John Vassiliou
(University of Canberra)
Einstein metrics and Darboux-Manakov-Zakharov systems
Abstract
10:50 - 11:10
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:10 - 11:50
Robert Thompson
(University of Minnesota)
Group foliation and moving frames
Abstract

12:00 - 13:30
Lunch break


Meeting room(s) : 6214

13:30 - 14:10
Ekaterina Shemyakova
(The University of Western Ontario)
Connection between scalar and functional invariants for infinite-dimensional regularized moving frame method
Abstract
14:20 - 15:00
Andrea Dziubek
(SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica)
Modeling biomembranes using calculus of variations and exterior calclulus
Abstract